1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

350 THE SCROLL.Mount.Vernon districts were educated at Indiana University.The representative of the South Bend district was educatedat Ann Arbor, the representative of the Rushville districtat DePauw University, and the representatives of the otherIndiana districts in various other institutions of learning.Of New York's representatives in the present house,twenty are college bred; seventeen are not.—New York Sun.THE PYX,Letters from alumni clubs should be sent in immediatelyafter Alumni Day, and it isurged that every alumni club celebratingMarch 15 will see that an account of it is duly sent in.* * * , *This number of THE SCROLL signalizes what may justh' beclaimed to be the greatest literary event in the history ofcollege fraternities—the appearance of Palmer's History ofPhi Delta Theta. It will be a treasure-house of informationthrough all time, and it will delight every loyal Phi to poreover its handsome and luminous pages. We are glad to givefirst place to Bro. Hugh Th. Miller's interesting and appreciativereview. Those who helped to make possible the publicationof the book may now receive their copies, while everyother Phi ought to purchase and cherish a copy. An advertisementof the history appears in this issue of THE SCROLL.Bro. L. E. A. Drummond, chairman of the alumni commission,is the originator and leader of a movement to.obtainthe enactment by the New York legislature of a statute exemtingfrom taxation the property of college fraternities.The pending measure is modeled after the Indiana act passedthrough the efforts of Bro. S. K. Ruick, S. G. C. The billwas introduced on January 10, 1906, by assemblyman CharlesF. Murphy, A X, and its salient provisions are as follows:That any part, parcel or tract of land not exceeding one acre, and the improvementthereon, and all personal property, owned by any Greek letterfraternity, or by any chapter of such fraternity, or in which any such fraternityor chapter is beneficially interested, whether standing in the name of acorporation or trustees, which is connected with any college, university orother institution of learning, and which is used exclusively by such Greekletterfraternity to carry out the purposes of such organizations, shall be exemptfrom taxation.